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Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers for Michigan…
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Abigail Ronson registered as an agent of Israel under FARA on May 18, 2026.
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Ronson is a part-time contractor for Clock Tower X, owned by Brad Parscale.
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Parscale ran a multimillion-dollar operation funded by the Israeli government to influence American public opinion.
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Ronson and Jesse Stokes are part of the Rogers campaign and have been involved in campaign activities.
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AIPAC spent $30 million in a failed effort to help Haley Stevens defeat Abdul El-Sayed in August's Democratic primary.
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Stevens' fiancé, Jason Turkish, is an outspoken pro-Israel Democrat and supported Rogers.
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Stevens abruptly shifted her support to Rogers after being disinvited to a campaign event with El-Sayed.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin was 'dumbfounded' by Stevens' decision to endorse Rogers.
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Ronson is connected to Rogers’s campaign through Convergence Media and Havas Media Group.
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Stokes registered as a foreign agent in October 2025 due to his work with Havas.
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Ronson’s FARA registration includes providing strategic communications for Israel’s campaign against anti-semitism.
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Abigail Ronson is a registered foreign agent for Israel under FARA.
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Ronson is the campaign spokesperson for Mike Rogers and facilitated a press conference with Haley Stevens.
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Jason Stokes is another registered foreign agent for Israel working on Rogers’s campaign.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called Stevens' endorsement of Rogers a 'despicable betrayal' and stated that El-Sayed will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire donors.
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El-Sayed saw a major surge in donations in the hours after Stevens endorsed his Republican opponent, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that he raised $1.2 million in a span of hours on Sunday, making it 'his second-best fundraising day since he clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination for the
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani also issued statements supporting El-Sayed.
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Leaders of the Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters, Michigan's Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson, DNC chair Ken Martin, DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie Rollins, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) issued statements backing El-Sayed.
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Democrats across the party's ideological spectrum rallied behind US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed after Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers two days before a race that could decide control of the upper chamber.
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Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) suggested that Stevens' endorsement of Rogers was an effort to 'get attention' and that Michiganders are worried about how they are going to pay their mortgage and fill up their gas tanks, and the ability to afford groceries, healthcare, and housing.
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Stevens’s endorsement is seen as potentially influencing the tight Senate race.
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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) in the Michigan Senate race on November 1, 2026.
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Stevens made the endorsement via X after attending services with Rogers at Perfecting Church in Detroit.
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Stevens cited concerns over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed's ad blaming Israel for the affordability crisis.
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Stevens resigned from El-Sayed's campaign and criticized the ad as fearmongering.
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Stevens stated she is still a proud Democrat and supports policies like investing in Black-owned businesses.
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Stevens was seen entering Perfecting Church with Rogers, where she greeted him with a hug.
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Stevens lost to El-Sayed in the Democrat Senate primary and initially supported him in the general election.
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Stevens was asked on CNN whether she would still support El-Sayed in the general election, and she confirmed she was 'still on the [Democrat] team.'
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Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race.
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Stevens and El-Sayed had a public feud over antisemitism and campaign tactics.
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El-Sayed defeated Stevens 48.5%–47.5% in the Senate primary.
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Stevens’s fiancé, Jason Turkish, criticized El-Sayed’s rhetoric as antisemitic.
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Stevens’s endorsement led to her disinvitation from a planned event with El-Sayed and other Democrats.
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Stevens described her decision as a stand against hate and a response to feeling unwelcome in El-Sayed’s campaign.
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El-Sayed criticized Stevens for relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.
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El-Sayed’s campaign reportedly asked Stevens not to appear at its events before the election.
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Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed faces pressure from Democratic members supporting Mike Rogers.
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Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers over El-Sayed, who defeated her in August’s primary.
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Stevens cited El-Sayed’s criticism of Israel as a reason for her endorsement.
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Jason Turkish, Stevens’ fiancé, endorsed Rogers before Stevens did.
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Former Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed Rogers, calling him a 'personal friend'.
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Rogers has deep political ties in Michigan and served in the US House for 15 years.
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El-Sayed is relatively new to politics with a failed 2018 gubernatorial bid.
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RealClearPolitics polls show El-Sayed leading by five points before Stevens’ endorsement.
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Early voting in Michigan began on October 24th with 2.3 million votes cast.
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Michigan has about 8.4 million registered voters.
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Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for the Michigan Senate seat.
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Haley Stevens opposed the pro-jihadist Democratic candidate for the Senate, Abdul El-Sayed.
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Abdul El-Sayed suggested border security and the police are white supremacists.
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Abdul El-Sayed stated that Medicare for All would abolish private insurance and replace it with a single-payer system.
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Abdul El-Sayed claimed the Second Amendment only refers to muskets.
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Abdul El-Sayed stated that parents do not have the right to protect their children from men in locker rooms due to the internet.
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Abdul El-Sayed is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and has spoken at mosques where speakers called the U.S. the 'House of Satan'.
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The Michigan Democratic Party expelled Haley Stevens from the party.
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Chuck Schumer called Stevens' actions a 'despicable betrayal'.
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Stevens claimed El-Sayed was 'obsessive' regarding Israel and refused to condemn the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Stevens’ Senate campaign was funded by AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups.
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El-Sayed accused Stevens of 'relitigating a primary that ended three months ago'.
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A Rebellion PAC TV ad attributed rising grocery prices to U.S. support of Israel killing Palestinians, which El-Sayed’s campaign disavowed.
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James Carville criticized Rep. Haley Stevens for endorsing GOP candidate Mike Rogers over Dem Abdul El-Sayed.
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Carville referred to Stevens as 'a used condom' and said Democrats don’t think she’s worth that.
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Stevens endorsed Rogers two days before the midterm election, following a falling-out with El-Sayed.
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El-Sayed leads Rogers by 4 points in RealClearPolitics polling.
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Michigan Democratic Party chairman Curtis Hertel condemned Stevens’ endorsement of Rogers.
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Rogers’ campaign claims internal polling shows him ahead.
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Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, a Republican Senate nominee, days before the midterm election.
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Stevens previously endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee.
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Stevens' fiancé, Jason Turkish, endorsed Rogers before her public endorsement.
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More than half of Stevens' campaign staff quit after her endorsement.
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Stevens gave an incoherent interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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Stevens claimed she was trying to help El-Sayed but did not answer Cooper's questions.
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Stevens referred to El-Sayed's condemnation of Hasan Piker's 9/11 comments.
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Former Michigan Governor Jim Blanchard said Stevens' fiancé was 'working her over' at dinner.
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Senate Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Susan Wild, condemned Stevens' endorsement.
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Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for the Senate in Michigan.
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Stevens gave an interview to Olivia Reingold of The Free Press at her fiancé Justin Turkish’s home in the Detroit suburbs.
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El-Sayed’s campaign highlighted a 2023 clip of Stevens saying, 'Israel comes to me in my dreams' at a Hanukkah celebration.
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All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the Senate’s 100 seats are up for grabs on Tuesday.
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Democrats are hoping to flip control of both chambers of Congress.
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Quotes
“This is one of the questions around corruption.”— Pablo Torre [1]
“Something doesn’t compute about this whole sequence of events.”— Rep. Jamie Raskin [1]
“Mike welcomes her.”— Abigail Ronson [1]
“The Rogers spokesperson you see starting this press conference is Abby Ronson. She is currently registered as a foreign agent for the state of Israel, according to @DropSiteNews reporting today”— Ryan Grim [1]
“The choice is whether or not you want to fight for working people like what Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has been on, or whether you want to provide additional oxygen and amplification to a candidacy of someone who wants to cut Medicare even further than it’s already been cut. That’s what’s on the ballot.”— New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani [1]
“this is a despicable betrayal from Rep. Stevens.”— Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) [1]
“Michiganders are worried about how they are going to pay their mortgage and fill up their gas tanks, and the ability to afford groceries, healthcare, and housing.”— Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) [1]
“I do not agree with the contents of that ad.”— Abdul El-Sayed [1]
“I actually don’t think about Haley Stevens… I’m just less interested in the politics of it all than I am in the policy of it all.”— Abdul El-Sayed [1]
“Please don’t feel as though that you cannot, if you liked Mike Rogers, that you cannot vote for him. You can, if you want to.”— Mary Waters [1]
“I think Mike Rogers is a good person. I think he’ll do a great job.”— Joe Manchin [1]
“He’s not egotistical. He’s the type of person that listens.”— Mary Waters [1]
“Build a wall. Why? So that those brown folks don’t come to our country; ban the Muslims. Why? So those brown folks leave or don’t come to our country. Blue Lives Matter in response to black lives. Why? Because they protect us from the black lives who we know inherently are dangerous.”— Abdul El-Sayed [1]
“What Medicare for all does is it does away with the private insurance market, right? It now has one single payer. That’s why we call it single payer, right? One insurance. And that is the government of the United States. It now can negotiate on your behalf, negotiating for everyone. And because it’s the government, it covers everyone. It solves all of these problems.”— Abdual El-Sayed [1]
“I think we manufacture these social issues. Because here’s the thing about it, Ross, do you have an iPhone in your pocket? Probably. Or is it an iPhone or a Samsung? You have a phone in your pocket, right? You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world, all the world’s information in your pocket.”— Abdul El-Sayed [1]
“I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign. I do not stand with Hasan Piker.”— Haley Stevens [1]
“And what our students see, what our children see, and who we are as Michiganders is not hate, and is not what we are getting from our Democratic nominee right now.”— Haley Stevens [1]
“This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state.”— Haley Stevens [1]
“It is the responsibility of the people of Iran to decide what their leadership should look like.”— Abdul El-Sayed [1]
“Well look, this is just a weight off my shoulders, OK? Abdul has been gettin’ angrier and angrier. I was trying to help.… That ad was very painful, there are so many Democrats who wanna vote for our Democratic nominee. And they’re just being told, ‘This is a party you don’t belong in.’ … That’s just where I landed on this. I woke up this morning clear-eyed”— Haley Stevens [1]
“I think some of the actions have certainly been antisemitic.… I’m just sick of who he stands with. He’s picking Hasan Piker and the uncle”— Haley Stevens [1]
“I wasn’t being honest with myself after a certain point.”— Haley Stevens [1]
“God, I wanted to vote for him, but he just kind of said 'Forget it.'”— Haley Stevens [1]
“The Democrats don’t even think you’re worth a used condom, but that’s about where you are.”— James Carville [1]
“Mike Rogers is Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate for Senate, a rubber stamp for Trump’s toxic agenda, and a corrupt politician looking out only for himself.”— Curtis Hertel [1]
“Haley Stevens’ decision to campaign with Rogers—a man who has repeatedly sold out Michigan’s working class, wants to pass a national abortion ban, and has pledged to be a loyal vote for Trump’s agenda—shows that she has abandoned everything she claims to care about.”— Curtis Hertel [1]
“I’m going to accept the election results”— Dan Sullivan [1]
“Haley Stevens does not speak for Michigan’s Jewish community”— Michigan Jews for Democracy [1]
“This is a despicable betrayal from Representative Stevens”— Chuck Schumer [1]
“I don’t think about Stevens”— Abdul El-Sayed [1]